{"id":1810,"date":"2009-12-23T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/christmas-sci-fi-style-or-not-as-you-prefer\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T22:16:00","slug":"christmas-sci-fi-style-or-not-as-you-prefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/christmas-sci-fi-style-or-not-as-you-prefer.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Sci-Fi Style (Or Not, As You Prefer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

First, we have a clip from a Klingon version of A Christmas Carol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XoXWtpTJZgo<\/a>
HT IO9<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, there\u2019s Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas by John Williams, famous for his sci-fi scores:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>Then there is this great image of a flying collision from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theofantastique.com\/2009\/12\/23\/merry-christmas-from-theofantastique\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TheoFantastique<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theofantastique.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sci-fi-tv.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theofantastique.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sci-fi-tv.jpg\" width=\"234\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you came here looking for something related to the New Testament, I won\u2019t send you away empty-handed. Vridar has a <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/24\/another-empty-tomb-tale\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on another empty tomb story<\/a> with interesting similarities to the more famous ones in the New Testament; and Peje Iesous\u00a0discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/pejeiesous.com\/2009\/12\/23\/mike-bird-on-the-historicity-of-marks-secrecy-motif\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mike Bird\u2019s treatment of the historicity of Mark\u2019s secrecy motif<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever you found more interesting\u2026Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3216474089483310552?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have a clip from a Klingon version of A Christmas Carol: HT IO9 Then, there\u2019s Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas by John Williams, famous for his sci-fi scores: Then there is this great image of a flying collision from TheoFantastique: If you came here looking for something related to the New Testament, I won\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Christmas Sci-Fi Style (Or Not, As You Prefer)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First, we have a clip from a Klingon version of A Christmas Carol:HT IO9Then, there's Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas by John Williams, famous for his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/christmas-sci-fi-style-or-not-as-you-prefer.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas Sci-Fi Style (Or Not, As You Prefer)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First, we have a clip from a Klingon version of A Christmas Carol:HT IO9Then, there's Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas by John Williams, famous for his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/christmas-sci-fi-style-or-not-as-you-prefer.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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